Congrats Wayne! Wonderful wake up call <smile> Cheers Rob
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Wayne Mackintosh<mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm very pleased to share the news that our recent bid submitted to the > William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been successful. > > The OER Foundation has been awarded a grant of $200 000 to support strategic > WikiEducator projects. > > This is a testament to our community's passion and commitment to > collaborative models of OER creation and distribution. The WikiEducator > community can stand proud and take a brief moment of reflection and > celebrate what we have achieved! This is another significant milestone for > the WikiEducator family and our wiki model of OER development. > > This generous funding support from the Hewlett foundation will enable us to: > > 1) Continue WikiEducator's work in hosting the world's largest wiki skills > training project in the formal education sector. This grant will ensure that > we can continue providing a minimum of one online Learning4Content workshop > for the next 2 years. WikiEducator will continue to provide opportunities > for educators around the world to acquire wiki skills for OER content > development and collaboration. > 2) Build a technology bridge for OER content interoperability between > Connexions and the Mediawiki software platforms thus fostering further > development and scalability of the OER ecosystem among projects which > subscribe to the free cultural works definition. > 3) Establish a national OER collaboration for the school sector in New > Zealand with the view to developing resources and models that can be reused > and remixed for other countries around the world. > > I would also like to congratulate our friends at the Wikimedia Foundation > (WMF) and their respective community projects. > > The Hewlett Foundation have also awarded the WMF a grant of $500,000 for > general operating support of the largest free content initiative in the > world. Congratulations to our free content partners at the WMF! This > combined with the recent resolution of WMF projects to support the CC-BY-SA > license is reason for celebration in the free culture movement --- > particularly those projects which have remained true to licensing > alternatives which meet the requirements of the free cultural works > definition. > > I'm proud that the OER Foundation and WikiEducator have remained true to our > core values modeling approaches for open philanthropy by developing all our > funding proposals openly and transparently in the wiki. > > A special word of thanks to every WikiEducator who continues to demonstrate > that the purpose of education is to share knowledge freely. > > Now onto making the future happen -- we have lots of work to do and we're > going to need all the help we can get! > > Cheers > Wayne > > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > > > -- Robert Kruhlak Burnaby, BC CANADA (M) +1 778 230 1875 (E) kru...@gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
